NEW FRONTIERS IN QUANTUM MATERIALS RESEARCH

NEW FRONTIERS IN QUANTUM MATERIALS RESEARCH

December 12th and 13th, 2022

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https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudeGoqTsuHtdDi1AdB75r62cFekmhHIt6 

 

Talk Videos are now linked below (when available)

Agenda: Morning Session: Strange Metals and Topology

Monday, December 12  11 am-1:00 pm CST (9:00 am-11:00 am PST)

Session Chair: Ming Yi (Rice University)

Speaker name

Affiliation

Talk Title 

Talk time CST /PST

Jie Shan

Cornell

Topological quantum phase transitions in AB-stacked MoTe2/WSe2 moire bilayers

 

11-11:30 am CST/

9-9:30 am PST

Doug Bonn

UBC

Non-local microwave electrodynamics in ultra-pure PdCoO2

 

11:30 am-Noon CST/

9:30-10 am PST

Joern Bannies

UBC

Doping-induced topological phase transition in the nodal-line semimetal LaSbTe

 

Noon-12:30 pm CST/

10 am-10:30 am PST

Emilia Morosan

Rice

Real- and reciprocal-space topology in square net EuM4 compounds

 

12:30 pm-1 pm CST/

10:30 am-11 am PST

General Discussion 15 min: 1-1:15 pm CST / 11-11:15 am PST

Agenda: Afternoon Session: Flat Bands and Heterostructures

Monday, December 12  3‐5:00 pm CST (1‐3:00 pm PST)

Session Chair: Andrea Damascelli (UBC)

Speaker name

Affiliation

Talk Title 

Talk time CST /PST

Josh Folk

UBC

 

Novel electronic states in twisted double bilayer graphene

3-3:30 pm CST/

1-1:30 pm PST

Ming Yi

Rice

Emergent phases in geometrically frustrated systems

 

3:30-4 pm CST/

1:30-2 pm PST

Benjamin Zhou

UBC

Non-Abelian topological superconductivity in maximally twisted double-layer spin-triplet-valley-singlet superconductors

 

4-4:30 pm CST/

2-2:30 pm PST

Pengcheng Dai

Rice

 

Charge density wave and novel magnetic order in FeGe

 

4:30-5:00 pm CST/

2:30-3:00 pm PST

General Discussion 15 min:  5:00-5:15 pm CST/ 3:00-3:15 pm PST



 

Agenda: Morning Session: Strange Metals Near Localization

Tuesday, December 13  11 am-1:00 pm CST (9:00 am-11 am PST)

Session Chair: Doug Bonn (UBC)

Speaker name

Affiliation

Talk Title 

Talk time CST /PST

 

Silke Paschen

 

TU Vienna, Austria

 

Electronic localization-delocalization transitions in heavy fermion compounds

 

11-11:30 am CST/

9-9:30 am PST

 

Meigan Aronson

 

UBC

 

Metallic Spin Chain Ti4MnBi2: Strange Metal near Moment Formation?

 

11:30 am-Noon CST/

9:30-10 am PST

Qimiao Si


 

Rice


 

Quantum critical metals, loss of quasiparticles, and their implications for flat bands

 

Noon-12:30 pm CST/

10 am-10:30 am PST

 

Doug Natelson


 

Rice


 

Suppressed shot noise in a strange metal: Implications for quasiparticles


 
 

12:30 pm-1 pm CST/

10:30 am-11 am PST

General Discussion 15 min: 1-1:15 pm CST / 11-11:15 am PST

Agenda: Afternoon Session: Topology and 2D Systems

Tuesday, December 13  3‐4:30 pm CST  (1‐2:30 pm PST)

Session Chair: Matt Foster (Rice University)

Speaker name

Affiliation

Tentative Talk title 

Talk time CST/PST 

Matteo Michiardi

UBC

Optical Manipulation of Rashba-splitting in 2-dimensional electron gas

 

3-3:30 pm CST/

1-1:30 pm PST

Yonglong Xie

Rice

Fractional Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

 

3:30-4 pm CST/

1:30-2 pm PST

Jing Liang

UBC

Optically Probing the Asymmetric Interlayer Coupling in Rhombohedral-Stacked MoS2 Bilayer

 

4-4:30 pm CST/

2-2:30 pm PST

General Discussion 15 min:  4:30-4:45 pm CST/ 2:30-2:45 pm PST